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Lab number
GSC-1210
Field number
CMC- 309
Material dated
marine shell; coquillage
Taxa dated
Mytilus edulis
Locality
on the crest of the eastern wing of Eskimo Island, 7.3 m asl, Lake Melville, Hamilton Inlet, Labrador
Map sheet
13 J/02
Submitter
W.W. Fitzhugh
Date submitted
July 1, 0097
Normalized Age
2160 ± 130
δ13C (per mil)
0.6
Significance
Palaeoeskimo; Paléoesquimau
Context
shell bed 12.5 cm thick, on bedrock, beneath basal peat with Eskimo midden
Associated taxa
Mollusca: Mytilus edulis
Comments
GaBp-1, Eskimo Island 1: There are three semisubterranean winter houses and a midden. GSC-1210 provides both a date for the midden and a reference point for the study of isostatic rebound.

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